""To be up there with Dirk, somebody I looked up to, I idolized, I competed against," Durant said. "We had some great battles. He always was supportive of my career and my game. So, you know to be up there with a legend like that, it's just insane. And be right under Michael Jordan, it's crazy man. "I want to continue to keep stacking, keep climbing up the charts, just see how I finish. It's been amazing so far.""
""He's passing people nightly," Rockets forward Jabari Smith Jr. said of Durant. "He's passing people in every category. He just keeps accomplishing milestones and he just acts like it's nothing. He doesn't celebrate it, he's wasn't out there trying to hunt and go get it. He's just out there hooping and it just happens organically. "He's a testament of what a basketball player is supposed to be.""
Kevin Durant needed 17 points to move into sixth on the NBA all-time scoring list and scored 18 in a 119-110 win over New Orleans. He finished with 31,562 career points, surpassing Dirk Nowitzki's 31,560 and remaining behind Michael Jordan's 32,292. Durant's final two points came from free throws with 15.2 seconds remaining. Teammate Jabari Smith Jr. praised Durant's steady accumulation of milestones and natural approach to scoring. Durant and Nowitzki had meaningful battles, including the 2011 Western Conference Finals and the following year's playoff rematch.
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